Exynos vs. Snapdragon for the layman


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Can someone in layman's terms, explain why in the world samsung uses exynos and snapdragon, why not just stick to one? (LTE isn't an excuse IMO...).

 

Performance wise, exynos has been shown to lag, even in its latest iteration... I just don't get it.

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Exynos is an internally produced Samsung SoC and thus cheaper. Same reason automakers generally use their own engines. An upper end product allows for price margins to use something better, namely Snapdragon.

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Exynos is an internally produced Samsung SoC and thus cheaper. Same reason automakers generally use their own engines. An upper end product allows for price margins to use something better, namely Snapdragon.

But they use Exynos in both their high end phones only in some markets and international versions it seems.  Plus Snapdragon seems to be more power efficient. In benchmarks neither one seems to take the crown... where one lags the other  doesn't, etc...

 

My point being is samsung is the only "big" phone manufacturer that does this, everyone else sticks with qualcomm only. I just don't get it from a business point of view, isn't more expensive having to build processors and just use it for some phones?

 

 

 

Don't get me wrong, personally, from an audiophile point of view, Exynos phones come with a wolfson DAC, whereas qualcomm is in SoC codec...

 

 

 

 

 

Another review from China for N4 exynos version, N910C 

http://www.igao7.com/news/201410/ifJxXL87fw85EI2u.html 

The main takeaway I got from this is about the gpu, more specifically, indeed the gpu is relatively "weak" compared to the snapdragon 805

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Still, it's generally cheaper to use internally produced stuff (read: vertical integration) which increases profit margins. Higher margins = happy shareholders. Use Snapdragon only when needed or where it adds to marketability.

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Still, it's generally cheaper to use internally produced stuff (read: vertical integration) which increases profit margins. Higher margins = happy shareholders. Use Snapdragon only when needed or where it adds to marketability.

Oh yeah I understand that...  But is it profitable to use it only phone some niche models...?

 

Lol phonearena posted this a couple hours ago, as if they read my mind:

 

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Did-you-know-that-Exynos-processors-now-power-more-than-20-different-smartphones-and-some-arent-made-by-Samsung_id61871

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